ABU Cisco Academy Produces First NetRider in Nigeria

The 2015 NetRiders CCNA competition for Sub-Saharan Africa was conducted by Cisco International and the results have since been released with young Mr. Clement OmachokoAgbo of ABU Zaria Cisco Networking Academy emerging the overall winner.Clement Agbobeat competitors from Ghana, Senegal, South Africa, Ethiopia and Kenya among several other countries that participated in the event.

 The announcement was contained in a July 9^th 2015 e-mail communication from Mr. ImohAkpan (CSR Manager Nigeria, Cisco Corporate Affairs) to the Head of IT Academy (ICICT) which oversees the affairs of the ABU Cisco Networking Academy. The e-mail began with a message from the South African Offices of Cisco stating that the competition actually covered the whole of Sub-Saharan Africa. “It is with great excitement to announce the top 2015 Network student in Sub-Saharan Africa from Ahmadu Bello University (ABU Zaria).”, Mr. Imoh announced in the e-mail that was copied to other Cisco Academies nation-wide. He further stated that “…it is certainly a major achievement to have for the first time since inception of the Cisco Networking Academy program in Nigeria a student coming top in the CCNA NetRiders competition from Nigeria. Please, join me to congratulate ABU Zaria for this outstanding achievement and being the first Academy in Nigeria to win the award.”, Mr. Imoh’s e-mail concluded. While responding to the good news, the Director of ICICT, Prof. S. B. Junaidu remarked that it was indeed pleasing to know that our Academy produced the first ever winner of that completion in Nigeria; adding that “this goes to further buttress why we are seriously upgrading facilities at the ABU Cisco Academy so as to always give the best to our students, in order to enable them not only compete globally but also emerge winners everywhere they go after going through their studies at our Academy”. An indigene of Benue State Nigeria, Mr. Clement OmachokoAgbo studied Electrical Engineering at ABU Zaria. By winning this international competition, he will be going on a study trip to Cisco Headquarters (United States) around January 10 – January 16, 2016 at the instance of Cisco. View the complete official results of the competition